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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) introduces new updates for smartphones

Facebook Inc(NASDAQ:FB) has been developing by leaps
and bounds in the area of mobile updates, in order to make the
social-networking site more useful and intrinsic to smartphone users. The
company had already released photosyncing for Android users, and they have also
added additional updates for Android Facebook applications, as well as the
Android Facebook Messenger applications.

Facebook is certainly out to become a hegemonic
company in terms of popularity in a technology-driven world, and it is on its
way to ensure the fact that users spend more time on the site, thereby drawing
to itself, more revenue through advertisements.

The in-app texting feature is a new and interesting
feature which the company has introduced. It allows Facebook users with
smartphones to send and/or receive texts, along with national Facebook messages
through the email ID which Facebook has made available to all its users, not so
many months ago.

Android smartphone users can not text their friends
from within the app itself. And this is just a part of the many updates which
Facebook has been stressing on. The company has already made public, its wish
to take over phone communication and become as reckoning a force as it is on
the Web.

This feature, however, has not been made available
to all smartphones. According to TechnoCrunch, the phones which will have these
new and improved features are phones such as some of the smartphone models by
Samsung, HTC, as well as a few other select brands. But it is planning on
improving the in-app texting feature and introducing it to other smartphones as
well.

The central Android App by Facebook already mirrors
most of the improved features of the standalone application for Messenger and
the company will further these developments to include new features, sure to be
unique and new.

The company has also announced the update to the iOS
version Facebook messgener for Apple smartphones. The iOS Messenger users may
not want to avail the in-app texting feature, but nevertheless, the company is
well on its way to asserting even greater power over more mediums and the
company is diligently working on improving its mobile updates to make them more
attractive and important to the people.